arctic

«arctic» in Mova's school dictionary: the very cold area around the North Pole, including the… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective; proper noun (the Arctic)

meaning for a pupil

1) The Arctic is the very cold area around the North Pole, including the Arctic Ocean and the northern parts of Canada, Alaska (USA), Greenland, Norway, Russia and other lands. tree →

2) Arctic (adjective) means from or about the Arctic. tree →

3) Arctic (informal) means extremely cold. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography and science, the Arctic is mostly a frozen ocean covered with sea ice, with long dark winters and summer days when the sun never sets. Animals: polar bears, Arctic foxes, walruses, seals, reindeer (caribou), Arctic terns. Inuit and other peoples live there. Climate change is melting Arctic ice. The Arctic Circle is an imaginary line around it. Phrases: the Arctic Ocean, Arctic Circle, Arctic fox, arctic weather.

examples

• Polar bears live in the Arctic. tree →
• The Arctic Ocean is covered in ice for much of the year. tree →
• The Arctic fox turns white in winter. tree →
• Some Arctic summer days have sunlight at midnight. tree →
• It's arctic outside — wear your coat! tree →
• The Arctic tern flies from the Arctic to the Antarctic. tree →
• For they saw at once that it was the great white Arctic moth. tree →

note

Pronounced "ARK-tic" — remember the first c. Capital A for the place: the Arctic. The Arctic is in the north; the Antarctic (Antarctica) is in the south. Penguins live in the south, not in the Arctic; polar bears live in the north.

In the corpora

• An Arctic fox mother can have over ten cubs in a good lemming year.
• Arctic hares can hop on their back legs like a kangaroo when they run fast, and they sometimes gather in groups of hundreds.
• The last mammoths lived on a small Arctic island until about 4,000 years ago, when the pyramids of Egypt were already built.
• Canada has the longest coastline of any country, more than 200,000 km, including its many Arctic islands.
• Yet the Arctic was never empty: Inuit, Sámi, Nenets and other peoples have lived there for thousands of years.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «arctic» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.